Dec 07, 2023 from Ishan Das Sharma To A Man With `jq`, Everything Looks Like JSON Featured Photo by energepic.com I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Bootstrap for a long time. While I love how fast it lets me get going, I absolutely hate the cookie cutter vibe of most of the...
Dec 04, 2023 from ~gallant A Consideration of SQL ORMs Conventional wisdom in modern software development generally endorses the use of an ORM. "Any project that doesn’t use an ORM will end up with a poorly implemented partial ORM." Most developers are...
Dec 04, 2023 from William Lyon's Blog Finding The Perfect Christmas Tree With USFS Motor Vehicle User Map Data, QGIS, & SedonaDB Using aerial imagery and Spatial SQL to explore Forest Service road networks
Dec 03, 2023 from Benny Powers: Web Developer Leaving Mastodon Mastodon is probably a great idea, but is extremely hostile to Jews, so I'm out
Nov 30, 2023 from Coding Horror I Fight For The Users If you haven’t been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year, I don’t blame you. There’s a lot going on right now. It’s a busy time. But let’s pause and take a moment
Nov 29, 2023 from Outside the Asylum The Worst Crime I contemplate what's the worst thing a judge could do.
Nov 28, 2023 from Outside the Asylum Prediction Markets Are Not Polls Prediction markets have been growing in popularity lately, and I address a common point of confusion.
Nov 28, 2023 from Ishan Das Sharma Accidentally deleted your .bashrc? When beginning to use the terminal, we might accidentally delete our .bashrc file. What is the .bashrc file? The .bashrc file is a configuration file used by the bash shell. It contains all the env...
Nov 26, 2023 from Remote Synthesis Updating Your Netlify Functions to 2.0 Netlify Functions 2.0 offer some important improvements, but, to take advantage of them, you'll need to make some simple updates.
Nov 25, 2023 from Muffin Man Moon Phases • Art It is incredibly hard to take a good photo of these. Colors have metallic reflection which I wasn’t able to capture, but it is very prominent in person. They are plotted using five different color ...
Nov 22, 2023 from unixdigest.com Upgrading to FreeBSD 14 - how to fix a broken BIOS bootcode A lot of people running ZFS zroot have managed to break their FreeBSD systems upgrading from 13.2 to the new 14.0 release because of a broken BIOS bootcode. In this tutorial I'll show you how you c...
Nov 21, 2023 from Remote Synthesis Building a (Virtual) Events Site What does it take to build and run a site that hosts virtual events? Let's dig into how mine is set up.
Nov 19, 2023 from Sagar Tiwari's blog Build static websites using ReactJS and ConstexprJS Describes how reactjs can be used to render static websites
Nov 18, 2023 from Caffeinspiration All of the writing I did in a week as a software engineer The other day, I was thinking about less-obvious skills that I find helpful for working as a software engineer. Some skills are obvious, like understanding technical topics, learning new things, an...
Nov 11, 2023 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net The quest for simple, high quality music and video playback in 2023 The year 2023 reminded me of my mortality quite a bit, so I took a good, deep look at my home setups in case someone else ever needs to be able to understand it, use it, maintain it. I decided to s...
Nov 09, 2023 from unixdigest.com Are Passkeys really the beginning of the end of passwords? I certainly hope not! As of late, Passkeys are promoted as the killer of passwords and a lot of companies are now manically transitioning from passwords to Passkeys. I don't think that is a good idea.
Nov 07, 2023 from Outside the Asylum Draft Bracket Printer I threw together a simple draft bracket printer, for running ODEs, top 8 drafts, cube drafts, or whatever else you might need such a thing for.
Nov 06, 2023 from Ishan Das Sharma The Ultimate Interactive JQ Guide Cover Photo by Pixabay This article requires JavaScript. Sorry... Has this ever happened to you? You’ve just received a massive JSON file that looks like it was designed to confuse you. Or maybe yo...
Nov 04, 2023 from unixdigest.com The proper design process in web development Today web developers are told that in order to do so-called modern web development they need to use JavaScript frameworks because they are an essential part of modern front-end web development. Wha...